My little Header Nightmare
11-12-2009, 08:34 AM
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i didn't get sent any bolts with my pacesetters. I just reused the factory bolts and gaskets and so far everything seems fine. glad you found your problem. enjoy the new sound!!!
11-12-2009, 05:41 PM
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For what it's worth, I just installed Pacesetters on my car, just went out and pulled a supplied header bolt and compared it to an original bolt. They are exactly the same length.
11-12-2009, 11:30 PM
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yeah what kind of gaskets are yall running? i used the gaskets supplied by hooker, not sure what they were made of, but im going to retighten all of my bolts here in a couple of days...
12-01-2009, 07:07 PM
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I just Installed some Pacesetter headers yesterday, with the Texas-Speed supplied header bolts, and I am also getting noise as you are describing. I will definitely take a look at this in the morning.
12-01-2009, 07:11 PM
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12-04-2009, 12:53 PM
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There was another thread either here or on another site about the same time I was doing my Pacesetters. He said his were too long also and had to reused the stock bolts. So I looked very hard at the length of the stock bolts and the ones that came from Pacesetter. From what I could tell on the set I got the pacesetter was the same length or a little shorter, so I used them.
However this is not the first time this has been posted, so anyone reading should look closely before using the bolts supplied with the Pacesetter headers.
Don
However this is not the first time this has been posted, so anyone reading should look closely before using the bolts supplied with the Pacesetter headers.
Don
12-04-2009, 02:33 PM
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Something to consider also is the flange thickness of the header as compared to the flange thickness of the manifold. If the two are not the same, even if the bolts are the same, there could be a problem.
